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mtbcI work in the University of Dundee's Life Sciences Research Complex in which constituent components have academic staff and students so there are various seminar series. The computational biology ones started up again with a most pleasant surprise from Katarina Blow. If I heard correctly, she is but an undergraduate from Cambridge who joined us for some weeks of summer work, but in explaining her analyses of a simulation related to the Thomson problem she clearly had command of the material and it was among the better seminars I've attended. Although I am employed as a software developer, I am technically research staff and encouraged to use my time with the university as a learning experience.
Those sharing the building complex with me tend to have advanced technical qualifications, access to computers, notebooks, online calendaring, etc. Maybe a week and a half beforehand I had received e-mail advertising the seminar so I noted it accordingly and went along to it: not a difficult task, one would think. I was one of the few who was there by the time it was to start: apparently many others didn't make it on time because the division secretary hadn't e-mailed out a reminder on the same day. Indeed, I often receive several e-mails about the same seminar which is annoying because I check each over in case any of the details (time, venue) have changed. Honestly, are these people really unable to recognize an interesting e-mail the first time and arrange some means of remembering to act on it? It's not impressive, nor are the various e-mails I receive with the subject prefixed
Those sharing the building complex with me tend to have advanced technical qualifications, access to computers, notebooks, online calendaring, etc. Maybe a week and a half beforehand I had received e-mail advertising the seminar so I noted it accordingly and went along to it: not a difficult task, one would think. I was one of the few who was there by the time it was to start: apparently many others didn't make it on time because the division secretary hadn't e-mailed out a reminder on the same day. Indeed, I often receive several e-mails about the same seminar which is annoying because I check each over in case any of the details (time, venue) have changed. Honestly, are these people really unable to recognize an interesting e-mail the first time and arrange some means of remembering to act on it? It's not impressive, nor are the various e-mails I receive with the subject prefixed
PLEASE READas if I might think that the message had been sent to me for some reason other than that I am intended to read it.
